Why These Celebrities Avoid Social Media.

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While some celebrities have trouble with technology in
general, and that keeps them away from social media, others have better reasons
for staying away from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Learn more about the celebrities who avoid social media, and
find out what keeps them away. From Jennifer Aniston and Bradley Cooper to
younger stars like Keira Knightley and Daniel Radcliffe, here are the celebrities
who just don’t do social media.

Jennifer Aniston

After declaring herself “computer illiterate”, “Cake” star Jennifer
Aniston confirmed again and again that she wants to stay away from social media
for many reasons.

“It’s not for me. I’d be opening myself up too much. I don’t
want to sound like a complete innocent – I’ve looked at things, of course. But
it’s such spewing. If I look at it, I’ll be affected. It’s like dancing with
the devil,” Aniston told the New York Times.

Bradley Cooper

The “American Sniper” star took the most retweeted selfie of
all time, but he’s still one of the celebrities who avoid social media. He’s
staying away from it because he wants his fans to focus on his acting, without
details about his personal like that would get in the way.

Scarlett Johansson

Staying away from social media is also the norm for Scarlett
Johansson. “I can’t think of anything I’d rather do less than have to
continuously share details of my everyday life. I’m always surprised that
certain actors have Twitter accounts. I guess they use it in a way that works
for them. But I’d rather that people had less access to my personal life. If I
could keep it that way, I’d be a happy lady,” she told Interview magazine.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Many celebrities who avoid social media have serious reasons
for it, but the “Sherlock” star claims that he just couldn’t edit himself in
tweet form. “Tweeting is about being pithy. I think tweeting would take so many
hours of editing I’d be lost for doing my job,” the actor explained at the Cheltenham
Literature Festival.

Daniel Radcliffe

The “Harry Potter” star already had millions of fans since
he was 12, so he prefers to keep his life private. “I don’t have Twitter and I
don’t have Facebook and I think that makes things a lot easier. Because if you
go on Twitter and tell everybody what you’re doing moment to moment and then
claim you want a private life, then no one is going to take that request
seriously,” Radcliffe told Sky News.

Jennifer Lawrence

Even though she has a Facebook page, “The Hunger Games”
actress doesn’t seem to be involved in her very limited online presence. She’s
one of the celebrities who avoid social media, and she even told David
Letterman that having to write about her life on Twitter would feel like a
punishment.

Keira Knightley

After claiming that social media can e “dehumanizing”, Keira
Knightley did try it out herself, just to confirm her original opinion. The
British actress joined Twitter in 2013 under a different name, but only stuck
around for... 12 hours before deleting her account. “It made me feel a little
bit like being in a school playground and not being popular and standing on the
sidelines kind of going, ‘Argh’,” she told Harper’s Bazaar.

Angelina Jolie and Brad
Pitt

Some celebrities who avoid social media are really bad at
technology altogether. Angelina Jolie has claimed that she doesn’t even know
how to turn on a computer, while her husband is equally uninterested in social
media, so Brangelina is staying away from Twitter and Instagram.

Martin Freeman

“The Hobbit” and “Sherlock” star Martin Freeman also prefers
to keep his distance from social media. “I’m not a huge fan of it. I don’t
think technological advances like that are exactly progress really,”he told
Radio Times, adding that “I don’t want my mug plastered all over the internet,
thank you very much.”

Kate Moss

Supermodel Kate Moss is also one of the celebrities who
avoid social media, because she just doesn’t get it the appeal, and would
rather keep her privacy. “I couldn’t think of anything worse than people
knowing what I’m doing all the time,” she told T2.